[Haskell-cafe] Data.Map add only if not exist and return true if added

[Arthur van Leeuwen]

On 9 dec 2008, at 09:11, John Ky wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a function for Data.Map that will insert a new key  
> and value into the map if the key doesn't already exist in the map.   
> When the key already exists, I don't want the value updated in the  
> map.  Additionally, I want to know whether the key/value was  
> inserted or not so that I can return that fact as a boolean from my  
> function.
>
> I can't work out which function in Data.Map is suitable for this  
> task and I wanted to avoid two lookups.

Data.Map.insertLookupWithKey (\k n o -> o)
should do the trick. The first element of the tuple returned
is the Maybe a that is Nothing if no value existed at the given key,
the second element is the updated map.

With kind regards, Arthur.

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